Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757143Ab0FIJ30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:29:26 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:47139 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756941Ab0FIJ3Y convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:29:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bu6ceFGpQsw56MEOpjAjRkFOyKE1PLG8a5kcpk5e448dq0q3lL2fRW4MoDKfcAQXEJ pzJlMlqqBR8btrG+tmr6Nk91DtuLoA5PG2ZQEP3gGnoGuF6g9tcKuaLMQHM5V6EA6V9W IzfiW53OP7oCz52DjKPHt2kBF1ghr6tkaLhZA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <996015.66352.qm@web180311.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:29:22 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 08/13] USB: gadget: g_serial: INF file updated From: Xiaofan Chen To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Nazarewicz?= Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell , David Brownell , Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 29 2010/6/9 Michał Nazarewicz : > As for CDC ACM INF file, my understanding is similar except the template > is provided by Microchip rather then Microsoft itself. > Actually Microchip is also copying from Microsoft's template. I could not find the CDC-ACM inf template from Microsoft website now but I clearly remember I saw it somewhere. Other companies does not really put Copyrights on the inf file for usbser.sys, for example, look at the following file from ST. http://www.st.com/stonline/books/pdf/docs/12571.pdf (page 5). Another example (old format). http://www.lvr.com/files/usbcomport.txt So it is probably okay to drop the copyright line. On the other hand, even if there is the copyright line from Microsoft, I think you can still redistribute it. But I am not a lawyer but a hardware engineer. ;-) -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/